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From: herbert@tubkom.UUCP (Herbert Almus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: xwindows/xterm
Summary: Comments from a user
Keywords: xwindow/xterm, experience
Message-ID: <1288@tubkom.UUCP>
Date: 23 Nov 90 13:05:38 GMT
References: <68862@bu.edu.bu.edu> <3375@zgdvda.zgdvda.uucp>
Reply-To: herbert@tubkom.UUCP (Herbert Almus)
Organization: TU Berlin Tubkom, W-Germany
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Hi,
we are using the xwindow software of Atari Germany and have also
some experiences with different prereleases since december 1989
(delivered by X software, the developer).
Configuration:
  Atari: Mega ST4, BioNet 100 II - LAN interface, SM124 monitor
  Hosts: HP9000/3xx systems
The software is reliable, the performance fast/acceptable (don't
compare it with a SPARCstation).
Problems: Sometimes we do have problems with our LAN (campus
net). If we have a lot of garbage on the net, the system
becomes instable ( n bombs, reset required). But this happens
only arround 5 or 6 times a year.
Remarks: The Atari side offers only TFTP (trivial ftp, UDP
based), but you can use FTP (reliable transfer) if you start
file transfer on the host.
The transfer rate (filetransfer) is growing from relase to
relase. Now: 10-20 kByte/s. We expect further improvement, 
because we know, that transfer rates above 50 kBytes/s are
possible. We reached this rate using the tcp/ip software (ftp)
of BIODATA GmbH (the vendor of the interface card). BIODATA
offers also xwindow software, but I don't know anything about
prices, performance etc. 

	Herbert  Almus